Rail-joint.



PATENTED APR. 21, 1908.

- IR. vP. WOLYNBG.

- RA IL JOINT. APPLICATION" FILED JULY15, 1907 w UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

ROMAN F. WOLYNEC, OF MoKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOJAMES KRET, OF HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROMAN F. WoLYNEo, subject of Emperor of Austria,residing at McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

.The present invention contemplates certain new and useful improvementsin rail joints and aims to provide a novel means for connecting theabutting ends of rails whereby the same are held rigidly in alinementwith each other and the jolting of the rolling stock when passing overthe joint is very materially reduced.

The object of the invention is to design a durable and inexpensive jointof this character which can be readily applied to the rails or removedtherefrom. as may be re quired.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction and the means foreffecting-the result, reference is to be had to the followingdescriptionand accompanying drawings, in which: I

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail joint embodying the invention.Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the joint. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the chair parts.Fig. 5 is a detail view of one ofthe rail ends.-

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followin descriptionand indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same referencecharacters.

Referring to the drawings the numerals l1 designate the abutting railends and it will be observed that the extremities of these rails are cutofi obliquely and that thebeveled ends 2 thereby produced overlap eachother and serve to carry the tread of the wheel over the joint in such amanner as to materially reduce the customary jolting of the rollinstock. These rail ends are received wit in a chair comprising a baseplate 3 fitting under the joint and restin upon a pair of adjacent ties.This base p ate 3 is shown as being of greater width than the rails andis provided along one of its lon itudinal edges with an integral wing 4W ich fits against the base and web of the rails u on one side thereofand is shown as exte'n ing upwardly and abutting against the lower faceof the head of the rails. Each of the rails 1 has a longitudinallyelongated opening 5 formed in the web portion thereof and the wing 4carries lateral extensions 6 received .Within the said openings andprojecting beyond the same, the projecting portions of the extensionsbeing apertured as indicated at 7. Applied to the opposite side of thejoint 1s a detachable wing 8 which also fits over the base and web ofthe rails and extends upwardly into engagement with the head thereof. Aplurality of pairs of notches 9 are formed in the upper edge of the wing8, one pair of notches being provided for each of the extensions 6 uponthe opposite wing and a tongue'being located between the adjacentnotches of each pair for engagement with the apertures 7 in theextensions 6. The lower ortion of the detachable wing 8 extendshorizontally beyond the base of the rails and is rigidly connected tothe base plate 3 by any suitable means such as the bolts 10. It willthus be apparent that when the tongues formed by the notches 9 have beenplaced in engagement with the apertures 7 in the extensions 6 and thedetachable wing 8 ri idly bolted to thebase plate 3 a secure interocking connection is produced between'the rail ends and the opposite wins of the chair whereby the former are rigid y held in alinement witheach other but are permitted to have the limited longitudinal playrequired by the expansion and contraction of the rails. If founddesirable the lower face of the base plate 3 may be formed with alongitudinally disposed stiffening rib 11 which serves to prevent anysagging of the joint between the adjacent ties. Attention is directed tothe fact that with this construction it is not required to pass anybolts or similar fastening members through the rails and that a secureinterlocking connection is produced between the extensions 6 of the wing4 and the tongues formed in the upper edge of the wing 8 w ich can notbe broken until the bolts 10 have been removed.

Having thus described the invention, what being provided with lateralextensions received Within the before mentioned openings l theperforation in the corresponding exten- 719 in the rail ends andprojecting upon the opl sion.

posite side of the rail, the projecting ends of In testimony whereof Ial'liX my signature Wing applied to the opposite sides of the theextensions being perforated, and a second in presence of two Witnesses.

' T 7' 7 1 joint, the upper edge of the second Wing be- ROMAA 0L1 ingprovided With a pair of notches for each Witnesses: of the lateralextensions, each pair of the FRANK ONDERKO, notches forming a tonguedesigned to engage ELIAS GLOWA.

